IntroductionI am aware of the following problems with Books.app. If you have a new issue, please do not leave it in the comments to this page--submit it via the Issues tab above! Or, even better, check out the source code and try working on it yourself--that's what open source is all about! Known Issues- HTML links do not work. This is due to the undelying UITextView functionality, and I cannot do anything about it yet.
- Avoid periods in your folder names, for instance Grantville Gazette, Vol. 1. The built-in Mac OS methods for recognizing file extensions will think the file extension in this case is ". 1", and the folder will not display in the file browser. I'm working on a workaround.
- Certain text encodings do not display non-ASCII character ranges properly. If you find special characters are garbled, or not showing up at all, you'll need to override the default text encoding via the Preferences pane.
- HTML files with "width" within their
tags may display incorrectly. Sometimes changing the text size helps. - Opening large files, especially plain text, takes a long time. Sometimes, in fact, it takes so long that if you're launching from the SpringBoard (the main iPhone view, with all the apps, etc.), the iPhone thinks Books.app has crashed, and automatically goes back to the SpringBoard. If this happens, you will need to remove the Books.app preferences file, so that the program does not automatically open the file on launch. See RemovingPreferencesFile. It is strongly recommended that you break up long books into individual chapters.
- Text file conversion to HTML is currently very primitive, with double newlines converted to paragraphs but no attempts to infer non-standard paragraphs, such as verse, tables, etc. This is actually by design, as it is recommended that you do your txt->HTML conversion on your computer rather than letting Books.app do it. Future versions may have an option to do "smart" conversion, but this will still be only "smarter" in the sense that a cow is "smarter" than a housefly.
- Changing text size when in the middle of a chapter/file may screw up your scroll point. I am working on a solution to this problem, but I don't know whether it will truly solve it, or even if this problem is solvable given the state of the iPhone SDK.
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2 Byte languages display partially. When 2 byte letter is located in end of line and space left only 1 byte, book.app doesn't display this last letter. I think programmer should put margin on the end of line and avoid this problem.
Large resolution jpg files display broken image. Let's try :)
Please submit these as issues!
is there a way to turn of the black on white/white on black plus the font size buttons on the bottom bar. I'd like to keep the page nav buttons and turn the rest off. Sometimes when I'm reading I brush the other buttons and I have to wait 5 min for the program to switch colors or font sizes. I love the program and this was one thing the iPhone was lacking. Thanks
I use Chinese character books, same problem: Comment by tiraremisu, Sep 12, 2007 2 Byte languages display partially. When 2 byte letter is located in end of line and space left only 1 byte, book.app doesn't display this last letter. I think programmer should put margin on the end of line and avoid this problem.
Thanks for your hard work, the app is really impressed. I like it, and I put it on my Top 10 list for iPhone Apps! But I am using it for Chinese Bible. I hope you would fix the problem Comment by tiraremisu, a word is missing at the end of line on each verse.
See issue #13 , folks. The Chinese characters bug is an Apple problem.
Hi, I am trying to read mobipocket documents. IMHO they should be straight palmdoc formats (prc) but when I rename them to PDB I get "Got unknown PDB magic". Is there anything I can do?
We don't support mobipocket yet. Working on it. The PDB stuff is a major hassle. :)
Hey roosterspice, have you got a timeline by when you think you will have some support? I am thinking about getting into iphone app dev myself and I would be willing to help. However, I just started learning ObjC so I might be really slow. However, if you need help and you dont care if it takes longer, then just point me towards something that is needed to support mobipocket.
Had a bug where the timeline would just stay... maybe it's fixed in the new version?
Books is a great program, I use it every day. Two feature request: - Add a "bold" preference for the text font - When open a book go directly to the last viewed charapter instead of the chapter list, I switch frequently betwen several books and I have to find the correct chapter everytime, perhaps a preference.
Best regards
Sorry, I moved the pervious post to "To Do" page, ignore it.
I am trying to use SCP to transfer my books but it no longer works? I upgraded to 1.1.1?
Any idea? SCP wont connect to the phone, did Apple lock up this version of the os?
SCP to the phone works fine under 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, try reinstalling SSH, or installing a different version (OpenSSH vs. Dropbear).
the timeline slider seems to "stick" on the screen occasionally and not be removed when switching between full-screen mode and control-mode.
Hi,
How can I read Georgian font? I have macbook and its fine with Georgian books but I can't read using book.app Any suggestion?
None of the books I put in, even is vanilla text format, work. It keeps telling me that it "Cannot determine text encoding. Try changing default encoding in Preferences, which I have tried. How can it not determine the encoding on a text file?
Does this work with 1.1.3? I installed it but it won't recognize any books.
The 1.1.3 version might be reading var/Mobile/Library/Ebooks/ like most updated apps, however books still install to var/root/Library/Ebooks/, I do not know if that could be your problem matthew, but it is worth looking at, I am having the same problem.
matthew and andrew, please post in the new support group (see front page)
v1.4-r292 crash after picture view. Don't return to Media\Ebooks... browsing.
Not sure if anyone else has this problem...latest update to v1.4-r455 seem to experience performance degradation. Open/closing application/ebooks takes significantly longer than prior version. Text encoding is also significantly laggy and landscape lock does not seem to work consistently. Any chance to revert to the earlier 1.4 version? I rather sacrifice the auto portrait/landscape change for the smoother transitions.
got latest download. The folder nav bar disappears if you change orientation. Bug that should be addressed
My iphone books can not display books in Chinese characters. iPhone version: 1.1.4.; book.app version: ver1.4-r469 Chinese character encode: simplified chinese GB2312
I just got the latest version and now I can't see the book I was reading :(. There seems to be a problem with the text displayed, I will erase my book and re-upload to see if that solves the problem but that is very weird.
I'll second the comment re: performance degradation vs. new features. 1.4-r469 is pretty much unusable for me. Very very slow to open a <1mb file (like 2 min or more). 1 minute to open the file, another minute to (presumably) render the text and find my last place. Also have had a bunch of crashes -- hardlocked the iPod several times now. On reboot it loses my last place, and sometimes even the last file.
Love the app, but we need stability and speed back desperately. For now I've been using textreader.
Does the application work in both landscape and portrait mode? How long does the battery last when reading with the backlight (i.e. white mode)? How do you bookmark?
Unbelievably, I STILL can't get this to work again as it always fails to locate my ebooks. The old version I had ages ago worked fine, but I had to go and update didn't I! Posted ages ago on some other bit of Google code but since given up. I thought, after a couple of months, v1.5 may work...but it doesn't.
Always comes up with the same %$%ing message "/var/mobile/Media/EBooks doesn't appear to exist". GRRRRRRRR! IT DOES! IT DOES %^$£ING EXIST! I've tried every variation (via Cyberduck) but I still phail at life on this issue.
I'd be eternally grateful for someone to advise as I really miss the app sob
Hi, I am trying to compile the code but i am getting the following errror "Command /usr/bin/make failed with exit code 2", can you help me how to compile the code. Thanks.
Me too having the same problem, unable to compile the source code. errror "Command /usr/bin/make failed with exit code 2",
Help to figure out this.